Place of birth: Charlton, London
Year of birth: 26th January 1917
Date of arrival: 3rd September 1936
Date of death: 11th September 1936
Where killed: Shot down over Talavera de la Reina
Comments: Joined RAF and was stationed at Hatfield and Sutton before arriving at Westwood Aerodrome in Peterborough. Before military court in July 1936, guilty of stealing.
Left Victoria Station on 31/8/1936 with Carter, Warsow, Hillman and Crawford. Of the British pilots, he had the least experience having only accrued 130 hours of flying time. Arrived at Getafe airbase on 3/9/1936. First British pilot to be shot down, flying a Nieuport-Delage NiD.52 after a battle with a Fiat CR-32 «Chirri», piloted by Sergente Patriani near Talavera de la Reina. Griffin was killed, aged 19 and buried at Carabanchel Military Cemetery in Madrid with full military honours.
Source: https://perrytwinkle.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/peterborough-uk-and-the-spanish-civil-war-brian-douglas-griffin
"The Fliers" by Brian Bridgeman p115, 120-121
